read around: the mechanicals: their ineptitude, the conflict between Bottom and Quince, their presumptuousness; read around act 1, scene 1: what's each want, what are their arguments; Hermia and Lysander: the extended simile; the characters in 1.2: broken boundaries

read around 2.1: Puck intro--the rhyme scheme; the conflict between Oberon and Titania--accusations and separation then a plan; Helena pursues Demetrius--questions due Friday (considering Oberon's speech ("I know a bank . . ."), what suggests he was from the country